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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1915
Page
8
The digestion system has become weak and Nature needs help immediately. For over 60 years Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been recognized as the genuine first aid. Pry a bottle. The genuine has a private stamp over the neck.
Dr J Wilbur Chapman warned in a Wednesday night sermon at the tabernacle that reverence for God is waning. He cited procrastination softening hearts and urged immediate church joining, noting many delay until meetings end. More than twenty individuals came forward during the invitation.
Ida Sarah Bachelor, a Forsyth hotel housekeeper, reportedly drank strychnine in chocolate milk after leaving a note stating she was tired of life. She was rushed to Grady Hospital in precarious condition, with motive linked to marital strife and concern for her children.
Miss Ruth Smith and William Summers of Barnesville Ga were married at the Ansley hotel yesterday morning. Ceremony performed by Dr L E Barton. Summers is an alderman and a popular young man. The Smith and Summers families are noted buggy manufacturers in Georgia and the South.
Major Folds fined a Negro chauffeur $15.75 and held in jail on a reckless driving charge after he ran over Detective George Garner at the corner of Warris and Courtland streets. Witness Adams testified the car had a broken rear light and missing window, but ids of man or car were not definite. The car owner B. Soader caused the arrest. Garner remains hospitalized with injuries.
Regional bankers yesterday raised loan rates. The 60 day loan rate moved from 4 to 4 3 8 percent and the rate on loans beyond sixty days rose from 4 4 to 9 0 percent.
Fire yesterday burned the residences of Mr. J. W. Burke and Dr. Te X. own in Garfield. The blaze started in Burke’s home and, driven by strong winds, quickly spread to Dr. Brown’s house. The properties belonged to J. A. Chapman of this city, and little furniture was saved while valuables were lost. Insurance coverage is believed sufficient.
Across Gai March 11. The city Council awarded the paving of Carswell avenue with brick to the Georgia Engineering Company of Augusta. Their bid was ninety eight and a half cents per square yard the lowest brick saving in the city has ever secured.
Name from Floyd county in the legislature dies of apoplexy as he leaves office in Ga on March 17. Special report by Walter Hacing notes a former representative. details incomplete but confirms death and service.
For twenty six years the Rome justice of the peace died this afternoon from an apo plexy as he was leaving his office for home. He was 57 years old. The funeral will be held here Thursday afternoon.
The Atlanta finance committee discussed a proposed central warehouse and storage for the purchasing department. A lot at Bellwood Avenue and the Southern Railway was favored, rent free for five months then $250 per month, with back rent from the first month. No action taken yet as other locations will be explored.
Booker T. Washington will speak at the Auditorium Armory on Tuesday evening March 30. He will be met by 500 colored men at Terminal Station and stay with A. I. Herndon. whites have 1000 seats. Proceeds go to a purchase fund for a home for negro servant girls.
Dr. John C. Haskell, son of Capt. J. 3. Haskell and president of the Atlantic Compress Co., died Wednesday morning at 4 o'clock after a several months illness. The body was moved to Patterson & Son's for burial and will be taken to Charleston, D. C. this afternoon for interment.
Forest fires in Pike county eastern Kentucky have caused thousands of dollars in damage in the mountains. Authorities say the blazes were started by incendiaries and bloodhounds are being used to trail them as march 11 reports reach The Times.
An advertisement touts 8 8 blood purifier as a cure for skin eruptions and stagnant blood. It claims the remedy is absorbed into the bloodstream and acts systemically to destroy germs, boost liver lungs kidneys and skin, and exhorts readers to obtain it from The Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Georgia.
News from Atlanta reports a severe frost sweeping the south spreading through upper Florida Georgia and the Carolinas and into Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. Temperatures fell to freezing or below with Florida readings as low as thirty four degrees and Carolinas below freezing. Atlanta saw a drop after nightfall but the day remained brisk and wind swept. The frost was expected to ease soon giving way to warm unsettled weather by Tuesday.
Dr C C Bass professor of experimental medicine at Tulane will speak to the chamber of commerce city school teachers officers and the general public on the discovery and cause of rises disease at the chamber building this afternoon He is guest of the Fulton County Medical Association and will address them in the evening
Atlanta police seek the wife and son of William McMillan Brooke, said to run a grocery. The New York detective bureau notified Chief Beavers that Brooke is dead.
Doctor Belk the Methodist minister will deliver his popular lecture Sunshine and Laughter at Gold Fellows hall College Park Thursday evening at 8 oclock. The lecture is given under the auspices of the local Gold Fellows lodge.
The funeral of R. W. Tidwell, who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 20 this afternoon from the residence 280 Washington street. Interment will be at West Ne w Dean John KR. Atkinson of St. Philip's Episcopal church will officiate.
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